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Age Consciousness, Age Segregation, and Age Denigration

Confessions of a Community College Dean

At the same time, age became a crucial legal category, defining when one could work, drink, smoke, marry, enter the military, and even have sexual relations. ” Middle-class children have grown more knowledgeable and socially- and electronically-connected. At first, age categories were largely applied to the young.